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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ITA.  The leaker needs to be identified and disbarred.  Not sure any actual laws were broken, but this cannot go unpunished.

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To most Americans, the leaker is irrelevant.  Sorry.  Lawyer here.[/quote]
The leaker is a hero. [/quote]

How does the leaker change anything?[/quote]

If public response to the leak makes the GOP worry it will change the outcome of the mid-terms and potentially 2024, they/FedSoc will put tremendous pressure on the right wing justices to pare back the scope of the ruling and just uphold the Mississippi law without fully overturning Roe.

Roberts is already with the minority on this decision or it never would have been assigned to Alito.  All we need is one more justice to get cold feet about going this far. [/quote]

Which of those five would get cold feet? All five of them are gleefully running forward. I guess maybe possibly Gorsuch - only because he was the surprise ally in the trans case last year - but I just don't see it happening. What, is Kav "I LOVE BEER" suddenly going to give two [banned word] about women? [/quote]

Kavanaugh is the recalcitrant vote.  This entire leak was done to put the focus on him.  Remember he's more of a partisan hack than a true believer like the other four.  Either Roberts is trying to pull him away for a compromise opinion (Roberts wants to allow the MO restrictions but keep Roe) or Ginni Thomas is trying to keep him on board.[/quote]

NP here: agreed. I think this leak is coming out of the chambers of one of the Republican-appointed justices. Either to keep a wavering justice in line or to sway someone to a more moderated view.

Democratic-appointed justices don't gain much from leaking this. Better to have let the final decision drop like a neutron bomb this summer, closer to the date of the midterms. [/quote]

The liberal justices don’t want Alito’s decision issued at all.  They would rather see a pared back version that still preserves Roe (since they know they’re not going to get the Court to go completely the other way on this case).  If they can’t accomplish that, then any value Democrats might get from this in November (which is still very speculative) would only be a consolation prize. [/quote]

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